HONEST FELLOWS THAT CHEAT!

People carrying the tag of honesty may falsely report a meal with friend in restaurant as business expense. They may arrange fake certificates to qualify for tax deduction. If they are reminded of morality at the moment, may be some of them won’t cheat. Going unworldly,...

bureaucratic jaggurnaut

Life is about pragmatism and realism, not utopianism. Look at that cluster of individuals who are our administrators, office holders, politicians and rulers. Even when we live in the global world of internet and e-governance, the huge unwieldy mainframe beasts hold all the...

DRIVING ECONOMICS

Beverly Hills syndrome is a highly contagious ailment that travels faster than the speed of sound and makes you feel that what you own is what you are. People are crazy about cars. They give them mobility, utility, status and a sense of independence. Car is a personalized...

FLYING THE COOP

When children were born, we imagined what they will be like when they grow up. What we didn't imagine was what we would be like when they do. Both my children have flown the coop in search of their own lives. I know it's good for them, but make no bones to admit that I didn't...

STEALING SHOES

For anyone who goes to masjid and knows about leaving his shoes in the little wooden cubby-holes, this is enough to strike fear into the heart. As & when I visit masjid, believe me, the hangover of shoe-being-stolen would annoy me all through my nimaz. Although I should...

bereaved husbands

For fiftysomething ‘me’ with two kids, visions of living life without wife would always give me shudders. A living example of the nightmarish kind of situation, for my eightysomething father the loss of spouse has been one of the hardest things that he has ever been...

My story of the grand feast

Much has been and shall continue to be talked about the extravaganza of ‘wazwaan’. Historically the ruinous expenditure incurred on all the razzamatazz of its showbiz would all along be criticized for causing affliction and sufferings to the common man. In future too,...

toxic pride

Look at Noovs, the class of social climbers (mostly dominated by politicians, bureaucrats, money rakers, flyby night operators etc) that have recently come into power and money. They are an embodiment of pride in the attitudes, expressions and activities. The way they look...

Why this had to happen to us…….

When there is a very long road upon which there is a narrow one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that the two cars are going in opposite directions, and they will always meet at the bridge. Imagine another situation; you're...

Lost in meetings

  Perpetually in the meetings, when you try to get hold of the people, you are received by the gloom laden words. ‘He is in the meeting. I can not disturb him’. Or the pompous ‘he is in the conference’. This can mean almost anything. He may...